Both of my kids ran cross country in high school and as adults still run 5Ks and the occasional half-marathon.
Now, I’m not a runner. Walking is more my pace.
But when my kids and their coaches talked about the importance of pacing, I took note—as a writer. Start out too quickly, and you might burn out. Start out too slowly, and you could lose momentum.
If you master pacing, readers will walk, jog, trot, or run alongside you for the duration of your story and not wander off your story’s path out of exhaustion or boredom.
So, how to set the proper pace as a writer?
GENRE MATTERS
A reader of thrillers expects more edge-of-seat, action-oriented scenes than interior monologues or languid descriptions. But that same reader
